AI

• Apple’s announcement of its new watches and Audio Intelligence features has set off spirited debate on whether its Recap and Live ReWind functions may violate privacy norms and laws [Apple - About Audio Intelligence | Bluesky thread by Yoel Roth | TechCrunch | Wired ($)]

• OpenAI was embroiled in controversy over its announcement that one of its internal models solved the Navier-Stokes mathematical problem, thus claiming a US$1 million prize; one mathematician have publicly pushed back, claiming inter-developer rivalry (his partner is an employee of Anthropic_ and possible “regurgitation” of his work on the problem by agents after he used OpenAI’s Codex to work on the proof [NY Times ($) | Science | Simon Willison’s blog | MIT Tech Review ($)]

AI bills that California Gov. Gavin Newson has signed into law so far at the end of California’s legislative session include:

• Adam’s Law: SB-1119, named after Adam Raine, regulates chatbot developers who offer their products to users under the age of 18 [CA Legislative Information - Bill info | Governor press release | Courthouse News | Wall St. Journal ($)]

• AI Safety bills: AB-1405 creates a registry of AI auditors and a set of standards “for their independence, transparency, and integrity”; SB-813 requires the state’s Government Operations Agency to develop a framework for evaluating the credentials and expertise of independent verification organizations that may assess AI models for various types of risks [Governor’s press release | Politico]

• Related: A bill that would regulate the use of AI tools by California attorneys and arbitrators, to address the tide of AI-generated errors included in court filings within and outside of California courts, is still awaiting a signature or veto from the Governor [Bill info - SB 574 | ABA Journal ($) | Reuters News ($)]

• Louisiana appellate judge (and AI advocate) Scott Schlegel goes in depth on a federal court order in West Virginia, regarding the defense’s use of GenAI tools for discovery in a criminal trial

• Norwegian government officials have announced that the country plans to restrict use of smart glasses in public, over concerns that Meta has developed facial recognition technology to be installed in the glasses [RTE | Android Police]

• Anthropic released a report yesterday on specific incidents where users of Claude attempted ‘malicious activity’, including cyber attacks, biological and conventional weaponry, mass surveillance, influence operations, and scams

Fabrication Follies

• Beus Gilbert PLLC v. Brigham Young University [Docket | Order]

• Douglas v. Deutsche Bank (D.C. Court of Appeals) [Docket |Order]

• Hennepin County, Minnesota v. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services [Docket | Memorandum Opinion]

Privacy

• A “massive” breach of data, consisting of over 153 million scans of drivers licenses, passports, and medical records belonging to Americans and Canadians, has been revealed and is being investigated by the FBI; there is conjecture that the source of the breach is an ID verification company [Reuters ($) | TechDirt]

• From 404 Media [$]: “Border Patrol is running secretive predictive policing units that analyze Americans’ financial activity and other data, then feed that intelligence to local police who pull people over who are not suspected of any specific crime, but which the government thinks may be worth searching”

Miscellaneous

• Gov. Newsom also signed bills that attempt to limit “addictive features” of social media platforms for users under 18 years old [Bill info - AB1709 | Courthouse News | WSJ ($)]

• As more cities press pause on Flock cameras, the company is now deploying “First Responder” drones [Charlotte Stories | Business Insider ($) | CNet | CBS News]

Long Reads

• Rebecca Rettig, Omid Malekan, & Michael Mosier, The Compatibility of Permissionless Networks and Financial Integrity: A Practical Guide for Financial Institutions (August 23, 2026) https://ssrn.com/abstract=7343938 

• Xinyue Liu, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Jane C. Ginsburg, & Tuhin Chakrabarty, Alignment Whack-a-Mole: Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Model, arXiv preprint (2026) arXiv:2603.20957

• Rebuttal of “Alignment Whack-a-Mole”: A. Feder Cooper, Playing Whack-a-Mole with misconceptions about memorization, extraction, and copyright (Aug. 31, 2026) https://afedercooper.info/whack-a-mole/